Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-08
DAKOTA.

its s reefs.
The knights OF Pythias Of Armour have
built a rev hail.
Regular rains are now running from Red
field TO Gettysburg.
Gov. Church made the address 1T Grand
Forks at the fair.
Castlevood is again agitating the question
Of incorporation.
The stutsman county teachers institute Is
in session this week.
John b. Finch did not draw u large audi.
ence at Sioux Falls.
The teachers institute at Yankton has been
a very successful one.
Watertown "a agitating the matter OF es-
tablishing a city hoseital.
Coal has been found on the farm Of Frank
Furrick near Twin Brooks.
Col. Plummer will deliver the address at
he fair at Lisbon October 5.
AT Tower CITY, George Payne was kicked TO
d ath while watering a vicious horse.
A number of persons in Sphinx county are
going to Alabama, perhaps to remain.
The Fargo college, under the auspices OF
the Congregationslists, opens October 4.
@. W. Buck, manufacturer end Wholesale
dealer In cigars at Sioux Falls, has failed.
The Farmers Alliance company at Water
town commences to buy wheat this week.
The new opera house at Watertown Is re-
ceiving the last artistic finishing touches.
A Methodist church was dedicated last
week at Twin Brothers, near Watertown.
The new Congregational church at Henry
has been dedicated, and is free from debt.
The assessed valuation of Dakota in 1879
vas SO, 267, 096. In 1887 1t is 1857, 0S4 1855.
The new Congregational church at Esmond.
near Carthage, will be dedicated October 9.
Hundreds OF barrels Of wine have been
INSIDE IN Dakota tails year from native grapes.
John b. Finch has closed his lecturing tour
in Dakota, having left Thursday for Boston
Gov. Church has accepted the designations
Of the trustees Of the insane asylum at Yank
ton.
Armory hall at WATERFOWL, a building so
ny $50 feet, will be formally opened In two
weeks.
Plank.nton hopes TO bee sme a railroad cen.
rer. 1t expects the Manitoba ald the Illi,ois
Central.
This week the Baptists OF south Dakota are
nolding their sixth annual convention at Dell
Rapids.
Z. T. Cressey has resigned the local editor
ship OF the Huronite and will be succeeded by
A. r. Pay.
The Manitoba is row surveying a line from
Pierre TO the Black Hills, following the Bad
river route.
Mr.. Simpson, who formerly edited the Clark
Democrat, viii establish a Democratic paper
at Alexandria.
Two rev papers will soon be started il
Sioux Falls, making In all ten weekly papers
and two dsi!ies.
A corn stalk, considerably over fourteen
f.et high, attracts considerable attention at
the territorial fair at Mitchell.
The board OF directors Of the penitentiary
at Sioux Falls rejected all the bids for furnish
ing coal, snd vii invite new ones.
For the twelve months preceding the last
Of September, the Huron hotels registered
5000 guests, says the Huronite.
VIM. Van Fps, Of Sioux Falls, has under al
easement the building OF a three-story, forty
foot front block, at Sioux Falls.
The Watertown Farmers alliance are build
,ug the largest fat warehouse In the city.
they viii also build q coal house S)x20
Get.
The Duluth, Watertown and Paci6c railroad
surveyors are now working On what is said 70
be a final survey between Piankinton and
Woonsocket.
A fellow on the streets of Aberdeen, who
vas playing the charity dodge was committed
TO jail. He felgned a broken arm, but an ex
animation by a physician proved the member
10 pe sound.
The Milwaukee Rlilroad company has
reached a point two miles west of Vermllllon
sith It's new track and the work is progress
ng toward Yapkton as rapidly as rails and
ties can be secured.
The Northwestern Transportation company
delivered Saturday at Deadwood 100, 900
pounds Of freight, coke for the smelter, an
thracite coal for the Homestake company, aud
u csiloaN VI uFl ACS' lucy tNJh oub -oO pdls
IF bullion.
jamestown will have electric lights, Judge
Francis having refused to grant nh injunc-
ton, restraining the council from putting IN
he plant. Let there be light, is the decision
If the Judge.
Rv. William Edwards, Of Port Abercrom-
bic, who had his church blown down Just after
completion, now has another one just finished,
a better edifice than he built he first time.
he attended the recent Congregational asso-
citation at Fargo.
Another mountain OF tin ore has been dis
covered six miles In q northeriy direction
rom Custer City, which Is said 20 he tae most
important, inasmuch as II IS by far the most
extensive and massive body Of tin ore yet dis
in the Hills.
A travelling man reported at Yankton that
g heard one ,f the ~ofic,sls Of the Wilmar
and sioux FAILS road say that the road would
90 10 Yankton because that town would
nor give bonus enough, but would cross the
dissOuri at some other point and make a new
there.
Sunday night at Rapid City a stranger from
Chicago wandered into the mouse OF ill-fame
Kept hy Minnie Golden. He was robbed Of
seventeen dollars 10 money and a watch. He
was then thrown into the street. ieaten
y verely about the head and face with blunt